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The Trend of Shaving Body Hair Is Relatively New

March 9, 2016

Written byCuriosity Staff

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How did hair become desirable in some places but not others? It gets complicated. The trend of shaving underarm hair, for example, began after a 1920s advertisement ran in Harper's Bazaar featuring a bare-armed woman with her arms raised. Learn more about the history of body hair.